My wife [sorry about the possessive] wrote a letter to a federal minister of the previous mob.
She duly got a reply, quite lengthy, assuring her that her concerns, although welcomed, were unnecessary cos the matter was well in hand etc etc. Written by somebody, signed by the minister.
Fair enough, par for the course, standard operating procedure and all that.
Except….
A couple of weeks later we went to our post box [we live in a rural region] and there was a letter for me.
Same letter as the previous, precisely, but addressed, on the front, and in the text, to me.
But…..
My name is different to that of my wife.
And there was no mention of me in the letter she sent, no connection at all.
In fact there are only 2 connections.
We are married.
We have the same postal address.
[Ok there are a few other intimate connections but they are irrelevant to this.]

As a person who is normally one of those dreaded ‘flak catchers’ / ‘flunkies’ (on leave at the moment), if you are interested I could provide a rebuttal / the logic behind the things you comment on in the letter you received back. Believe it or not, there is actually a reason to the way it all works. Probably you aren’t interested. But this post and the comments kind of irritated me.

Hendo, I’ve already heard all the industry talking points a gazillion times, but you know, knock yourself out if you want to.

As for being irritated, being a flak catcher means you actually get paid to be irritated by the likes of me, just as I get paid to be irritated by people who don’t listen to a word I say about why their ‘puters aren’t working. I, on the other hand (along with approx 80% of the Victorian population) am being paid nothing for being severely irritated by the destruction of everybody’s heritage and ecosystem for private profit, with my taxes going to bolster them as the cherry on top. But being irritated never killed anyone.

Mmm… I wanted to acknowledge that I read your response. But I don’t really want to knock myself out if you feel you’ve heard it all before.

Just wanted to register that this public servant (who likes your blog) doesn’t agree with the destruction of heritage and ecosystem for private profit as well… but I feel it’s a bit misplaced to go on about nonsensical letters from politicians and their departments in relation to it.

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Helen

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